To say Vivian is fed up is an understatement. This girl has a lot of MOXIE (sorry, there's no other way to put it) due to a series of harassing incidents. These incidents were inspired by real life incidents that author Jennifer Mathieu has experienced or seen (or both, as the culture of harassment continues today). Check out her event here in the Bay Area and our interview!

Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her small-town Texas high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes and hallway harassment. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules.

Viv’s mom was a punk rock Riot Grrrl in the ’90s, so now Viv takes a page from her mother’s past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She’s just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. Pretty soon Viv is forging friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, and she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.

When I'm not devouring YA novels like the world is ending, I spend my time with my fur balls, husband, and fangirling over everything. I'm a big dystopian fan; my favorite series is The Giver Quartet. In addition to contributing here, I blog for Hicklebee's Children's Bookstore and Forever Young Adult. You can find me at Bay Area author events and on Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads as diamondxgirl.